Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods

I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife
and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the
perpetuation of my race and my mind. However, in the evening of my life,
facing immense dangers to my French and European homeland, I feel the
duty to act as long as I still have strength. I
believe it necessary to sacrifice myself to break the lethargy that
plagues us.

I give up what life remains to me in order to protest and to
found. I chose a highly symbolic place, the Cathedral of Notre Dame de
Paris, which I respect and admire: she was built by the genius of my
ancestors on the site of cults still more ancient, recalling our
immemorial origins.

While many men are slaves of their lives, my gesture embodies an
ethic of will. I give myself over to death to awaken slumbering
consciences. I rebel against fate. I protest against poisons of the soul
and the desires of invasive individuals to destroy the anchors of our
identity, including the family, the intimate basis of our
multi-millennial civilization. While I defend the identity of all
peoples in their homes, I also rebel against the crime of the
replacement of our people.

The dominant discourse cannot leave behind its toxic ambiguities, and
Europeans must bear the consequences. Lacking an identitarian religion
to moor us, we share a common memory going back to Homer, a repository
of all the values ​​on which our future rebirth will be founded once we
break with the metaphysics of the unlimited, the baleful source of all
modern excesses.

I apologize in advance to anyone who will suffer due to my death,
first and foremost to my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, as
well as my friends and followers. But once the pain and shock fade, I do
not doubt that they will understand the meaning of my gesture and
transcend their sorrow with pride. I hope that they shall endure
together. They will find in my recent writings intimations and
explanations of my actions.

Note

For more information, one can go to my publisher, Pierre-Guillaume
Roux. He was not informed of my decision, but he has known me a long
time.

What many had assumed would be a meeting regarding New York State Sheriffs’ Association concerns about New York’s strict new gun laws, turned into a verbal scolding from the Governor which included the threat of some people’s jobs if they didn’t toe the line and shut up about the SAFE Act.

The sheriffs thought they were being summoned to the Capitol to discuss ideas for changes to New York’s gun control law, the SAFE Act. Instead, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told them to keep quiet.Opposition to the new law has simmered in upstate areas since Cuomo signed the law in January. Many county sheriffs oppose it, particularly its expanded definition of banned assault weapons, and have spoken out around the state. In January, the New York State Sheriffs’ Association wrote Cuomo with an analysis, and later suggested tweaks.

Cuomo invited its leaders to the Capitol last month, people briefed on the meeting said.

Rather than discuss the merits of the letter, Cuomo asked those in attendance to stop publicly discussing opposition to the SAFE Act.

One individual briefed on the meeting claimed that Cuomo had threatened to remove some sheriffs from office.

What has raised the ire of the Governor is a lawsuit the Association has joined in, challenging the Constitutionality of the SAFE Act.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said late Monday he will
begin tapping into two government employee retirement funds to buy more
time before the U.S. Treasury is faced with the prospect of defaulting
on the national debt.

In a letter to congressional
leaders, Lew said that he would tap the civil service retirement and
disability fund and a similar fund that covers retired postal workers.
The law allows him to remove investments from these funds to clear room
for more borrowing until Congress votes to raise the debt limit

Under the law, any investments diverted from the pension funds must
be replaced with interest once Congress approves raising the debt limit.

Lew has said the various bookkeeping measures he is allowed to employ
should provide enough maneuvering room to keep the government from
defaulting on its debt until after Labor Day. Other estimates say Lew
may be able to forestall a default until as late as November.

In January, Congress voted to temporarily suspend the debt limit but that suspension ended Sunday.

North
Carolina’s anti-Federalists believed the proposed powers of the federal
judiciary were far too extensive, and many thought there should be no
federal judges at all – and dreaded their interference with the State
judges. All cases of individual or State concern were believed to be
better left to the State judiciary.

“At
the sessions of the courts, at county militia musters, in the taverns,
wherever men gathered, the main topics of conversation [in 1787] were
the Constitution and its framers. In the heat of argument no man’s
character was above attack and no past political or military service
could overcome party animosity. Thomas Person, a general of the
Revolution and patriot of undoubted sincerity, denounced Washington as
“a damned rascal and traitor to his country for putting his hand to such
an infamous paper as the new Constitution.”

Willie
Jones, leader of the [North Carolina] anti-federalists, found it
necessary to deny in the public press that he had “called the Members of
the Grand Convention, generally, and General Washington and Col. Davie,
in particular, scoundrels” ….William Lenoir of Wilkes county said later
in the debates in the convention that his constituents had instructed
him to oppose the adoption of the Constitution. William Lancaster of
Franklin [county] said that his own feelings and his duty to his
constituents induced him to oppose the adoption of the Constitution,
since he believed every delegate was bound by his instructions.

Lemuel
Burkitt, a Baptist preacher strongly opposed to ratification, was a
[convention] candidate in Hertford county. In explaining the selection
of an area ten square miles [to be] the seat of the [federal]
government, Burkitt said: “This my friends, will be walled in or
fortified. Here an army of fifty thousand, or perhaps, a hundred
thousand men, will be finally embodied, and will sally forth, and
enslave the [American] people, who will be gradually disarmed.”

[Hugh]
Williamson…did not consider paper currency as honest tender because of
its rapid depreciation. However convenient depreciated paper appeared to
those who used it to discharge their debts, he contended that the
credit and finances of the State had been injured by it. No part of the
North Carolina debt of North Carolina had been discharged by the
operations of paper money, “the whole advantage of depreciation being a
mere juggle,” by which one citizen was injured for the convenience of
another.”

So
great were the evils of paper money that the dignity of government was
wounded by declaring it legal tender, industry languished, the orphan
was defrauded, and the most atrocious frauds were practiced under the
sanction of the law.”

Largest per-capita Loss
Beallsville, Ohio (pop. 475) gained unwanted national attention between 1966 and 1971 by having suffered the largest per-capita loss of life in the Vietnam War. Six young men lost their lives in the war, a terrible and profound loss for this small town.

Highest State Casualties
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. The state had 711 casualties -- 39.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Oklahoma had the second-highest casualty rate.Highest High School Casualties
Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia sustained the largest number of Vietnam war casualties of any high school in the nation with 54.The Marines of Morenci
They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

Robert Dale Draper, 19, was killed in an ambush.
Stan King, 21, was killed less than a week after reaching Vietnam.
Alfred Van Whitmer, 21, was killed while on patrol.
Larry J. West, 19 was shot near Quang Nam.
Jose Moncayo, 22, was part of an entire platoon wiped out.
Clive Garcia, 22, was killed by a booby trap while leading a patrol.The Buddies from Midvale
LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam..
In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Three hallmark all-American days. Three more names to be placed on the The WallThe First and the Last
The first American soldier killed in the Vietnam War was Air Force T-Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. He is listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having a casualty date of June 8, 1956. His name was added to the Wall on Memorial Day 1999.

First battlefield fatality was Specialist 4 James T. Davis who was killed on December 22, 1961.

The last American soldier killed in the Vietnam War was Kelton Rena Turner, an 18-year old Marine. He was killed in action on May 15, 1975, two weeks after the evacuation of Saigon, in what became known as the Mayaguez incident.
Others list Gary L. Hall, Joseph N. Hargrove and Danny G. Marshall as the last to die in Vietnam. These three US Marines Corps veterans were mistakenly left behind on Koh Tang Island during the Mayaguez incident. They were last seen together but unfortunately to date, their fate is unknown. They are located on panel 1W, lines 130 - 131.

The last pilot casualty in the country of Vietnam occured during the Embassy evacuation in Saigon, William C. Nystal and Michael J. Shea both died on the helicopter on April 30, 1975 approaching the USS Hancock in the China Sea (both are located at 1W, 124). The last pilot killed in the Vietnam war was Air Force helicopter pilot Second Lieutenant Richard Vandegeer who was killed on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. This occured during the Mayaguez incident when his helicopter crashed on May 15, 1975. It is concidered the last combat action of the Vietnam War.

The youngest Vietnam KIA is believed to be Dan Bullock at 15 years old.
The oldest person on the Wall is Dwaine McGriff at 63 years old.
At least 5 men killed in Vietnam were 16 years old.
At least 12 men killed in Vietnam were 17 years old.
There are 120 persons who listed foreign countries as their home of record.
At least 25,000 of those killed were 20 years old or younger.
More than 17,000 of those killed were married.
Veterans killed on their first day in Vietnam 997 (unconfirmed)
Veterans killed on their last day in Vietnam 1,448 (unconfirmed)
Number of Chaplains on the Wall -- 16 (2 Medal Of Honor)
Number of Women on the Wall -- 8 (7 Army, 1 USAF - 7,484 served)
There are 226 Native Americans on the Memorial.
There are 22 countries represented on the Memorial.
Most common name on the Memorial "Smith" with 667 veterans.
The most casualties for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 casualties.
The most casualties for a single month was May 1968, 2,415 casualties were incurred.

Sgt. Robert G. Davison of Muskegon, Michigan joined the Marine Corp at the age of 14. He had four years of service in the Marines when he was shipped to Vietnam at age 18. Robert was KIA on Dec 17, 1966 one day before his 19th birthday.

Corporal William T. Perkins Jr. of Sepulveda, California was a Marine combat photographer. He is the only military photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor. He was killed in action on October 12, 1967.

Corporal Thomas W. Bennett of Morgantown, West Virginia was a U.S. Army medic and was the only conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam war. He was killed in action on February 11, 1969.

BUDDIES:
Steven E. Amescua and Anthony J. Blevins joined the Marine Corp on the buddy plan. Steven was KIA May 15, 1968 and Anthony was KIA August 23, 1968.

John A. Jensen and Charles D. Turnbough were buddies who graduated from high school together and joined the Marines together. John was KIA August 27, 1967 and Charles was KIA three days later on August 30, 1967. BROTHERS:
Brothers Charles and Philip Tank were both killed in Vietnam. Charles on April 19, 1969 Philip on September 12, 1968.

Brothers Kenneth and Paul Olenzuk were both killed in Vietnam. Kenneth on December 25, 1967 and Paul on August 10, 1968

Brothers Marlin and Norman Eversgerd were both killed in Vietnam. Marlin on March 19, 1967 and Norman on August 18, 1968

Brothers Bennett and Dennis Herrick were both killed in Vietnam. Bennett on March 25, 1968 and Dennis on August 02, 1970

Brothers Gabriel and Paul Trujillo were both killed in Vietnam. Gabriel on February 23, 1971 and Paul on November 04, 1971

Brothers Benjamin and Francisco Montano were both killed in Vietnam. Francisco on April 08, 1967 and Benjamin on May 15, 1969

Brothers James and John Rowden were both killed in Vietnam. James on March 05, 1966 and John on February 10, 1968

Brothers Michael and William Francis were both killed in Vietnam. Michael on September 30, 1967 and William on March 09, 1970

Brothers Robert and Steven Gaftunik were both killed in Vietnam. Robert on August 25, 1969 and Steven on March 27, 1968

Brothers Rudy and Stanley Sagon were both killed in Vietnam. Rudy on December 10, 1965 and Stanley on May 20, 1966

Brothers Robert and Phillip Wyatt were both killed in Vietnam. Robert on July 10, 1967 and Phillip on May 28, 1968

Brothers Samuel and William Nixon were both killed in Vietnam. Samuel on March 21, 1968 and William on May 8, 1968

Brothers Kirby and Lanny Hamby were both killed in Vietnam. Kirby on June 8, 1968 and Lanny on October 14, 1969

Brothers John and David Banks were both killed in Vietnam. John on March 28, 1966 and David on April 21, 1969

Brothers George and James Wright were both killed in Vietnam. George on May 21, 1967 and James on May 31, 1969

Brothers Donald and Cordis White were both killed in Vietnam. Donald on March 5, 1967 and Cordis on September 18, 1969

Brothers Clyde and Edward Withee were both killed in Vietnam. Clyde on February 5, 1966 and Edward on October 6, 1970

Brothers Richard and Larry Land were both killed in Vietnam. Richard on May 18, 1967 and Larry on March 28, 1971

Brothers Robert and Harold Musselman were both killed in Vietnam. Robert on October 25, 1967 and Harold on March 3, 1969

Brothers David and Otis Morgan were both killed in Vietnam. David on January 20, 1969 and Otis on January 28, 1970

Brothers John and Dana Jensen were both killed in Vietnam. John on August 27, 1967 and Dana on April 17, 1969

Brothers Stephen and Stanley Barrett were both killed in Vietnam. Stephen on January 25, 1968 and Stanley on October 3, 1970

Brothers Steven and Randy Mathias were both killed in Vietnam. Steven on July 2, 1967 and Randy on June 18, 1968

Brothers Roger and Stanley Herrell were both killed in Vietnam. Stanley on November 1, 1968 and Roger on July 29, 1969

Brothers James and Kenneth Stutes were both killed in Vietnam. James on June 6, 1970 and Kenneth on July 5, 1967

Brothers Lane and Joseph Hargrove were both killed in Vietnam. Lane on April 21, 1968 and Joseph on May 15, 1975

Brothers Edmund and Michael Travis were both killed in Vietnam. Edmund on June 27, 1967 and Michael on June 7, 1968

Brothers David and Norman Evans were both killed in Vietnam. David on October 24, 1968 and Norman on November 24, 1970

Brothers Juan and Arthur Garcia were both killed in Vietnam. Juan on Nov 20, 1967 and Arthur on February 7, 1970

Brothers David and John Greeson were both killed in Vietnam. David on Nov 7, 1969 and John on July 22, 1968

Brothers Leonard and Byron McQuinn were both killed in Vietnam. Leonard on Sept 5, 1966 and Byron on Feb 24, 1969

Brothers Rodrick and Garland Whalen were both killed in Vietnam. Rodrick on October 1, 1966 and Garland on January 31, 1969

Brothers Marvin and Darwin Gordon were both killed in Vietnam. Marvin on September 17, 1967 and Darwin on March 24, 1968

Brothers Charles and Clifford Johnson were both killed in Vietnam. Charles on February 8, 1968 and Clifford on December 26, 1970

Brothers Budd and Charles Hood were both killed in Vietnam. Budd on February 28, 1967 and Charles on August 12, 1969

Brothers Wayne and Fred Traylor were both killed in Vietnam. Wayne on May 11, 1966 and Fred on June 12, 1969

Brothers Ronald and Thomas Kustaborder were both killed in Vietnam. Ronald on Feb 25, 1968 and Thomas on Feb 14, 1969

Brothers John and Harold Ritch were both killed in Vietnam. John on Nov 10, 1968 and Harold on Nov 12, 1971

Brothers Ronald and Edward Keglovits were both killed in Vietnam. Ronald on Aug 26, 1967 and Edward on Mar 30, 1967 STEP BROTHERS:
Richard Earl Sipes and Raymond Omer Kincannon were step brothers and raised together in Chula Vista, CA. They were both killed in Vietnam. Richard on Dec 29, 1966 and Raymond on April 1, 1968

FATHER AND SONS:
Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. was killed June 08, 1956 his son Richard B. Fitzgibbon III was KIA September 07, 1965.

Leo Hester Sr. Died March 10, 1967 in a aircraft crash his son Leo Hester Jr. was KIA November 02, 1969 also in a aircraft crash.

Fred C. Jenkins Died April 2, 1968, his son Bert M. Jenkins was KIA April 28, 1969. (unconfirmed)

FATHER NOT ON THE MEMORIAL WITH SON:
Although both father and son served in Vietnam during the same time frame, the father is not on the Memorial. Lt. Rex Chrisman, US Navy, died of a heart attack while assigned on the USS Estes that was being serviced in Bangkok. The ship was waiting for its next maneuver to the China Sea. His son, PFC Rex G. Chrisman took his father back home for burial. Returning to Vietnam, Rex was killed a month later.

Number of living whose names are etched on the “wall” in error? TWELVE!
Names Added to Memorial: Since 1997 88 names of veterans who have died due to their wounds received during the Vietnam war have been added to the Wall. The latest names added are listed below.

In Memory Day Since the war in Vietnam came to an end, there has been a growing sense among many veterans and their families that those who served in this nation's longest war have suffered and are continuing to suffer premature deaths related to their service. These deaths have been attributed to exposure to Agent Orange, post- traumatic stress disorder, and a growing list of other causes.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's In Memory Day program honors those who died as a result of the Vietnam War, but whose deaths do not fit the Department of Defense criteria for inclusion upon the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Every year there is a ceremony to pay tribute to these men and women who sacrificed so much for their country. The ceremony is held on the third Monday in April — In Memory Day.

Raymond Maxwell, the only official at the State Department's bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the attacks, tells Josh Rogin
that he’s been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton’s team.

Following
the attack in Benghazi, Libya, senior State Department officials close
to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a midlevel official who had no
role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against
him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the
failures that led to the death of four Americans last year.

Raymond Maxwell was placed on
forced “administrative leave” after the State Department’s own internal
investigation, conducted by an Administrative Review Board (ARB) led by
former State Department official Tom Pickering. Five months after he was
told to clean out his desk and leave the building, Maxwell remains in
professional and legal limbo, having been associated publicly with the
death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American for reasons
that remain unclear.

Maxwell,
who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern
affairs from August 2011 until his removal last December, following
tours in Iraq and Syria, spoke publicly for the first time in an
exclusive interview with The Daily Beast.

“The
overall goal is to restore my honor,” said Maxwell, who has filed
grievances regarding his treatment with the State Department’s Human
Resources Bureau and the American Foreign Service Association, which
represents the interests of foreign-service officers. The other three
officials placed on leave were in the Diplomatic Security Bureau,
leaving Maxwell as the only official in the Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs (NEA), which had responsibility for Libya, to lose his job.

“I
had no involvement to any degree with decisions on security and the
funding of security at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi,” he said.

I just emailed my roommate at USAFA, a career (now retired) F15
fighter pilot, a USAFA grad and retired Colonel, USAF, who has operated
in the region. Here’s his report:

“The last step in a close-in PGM drop/release is for someone on the
ground to laser the target. That was done. Then — no drop. Someone said
‘No’ at the last second.”

WHO SAID “NO”???

(PGMs are smart bombs – Precision Guided Munitions.)

Re-read that: “…the LAST STEP.”

General Ham (AFRICOM) owned ALL AC130 and armed drones in-theater.
Ham was relieved that night – by some reports, within 30 sec of his
talking with Obama. Admiral Gaouette owned all FA18 in the Med – he was
relieved the next day. (And contemporaneous news reports were that the 6th Fleet was offshore Libya at the time – within minutes of flight time to Benghazi.)

WHY were they relieved? WERE attack assets overhead and – LITERALLY
AT THE LAST SECOND – were those attack assets denied engagement by
whoever replaced an instantly-relieved General Ham?

If those attack assets were not overhead, HOW can the lasing of the
target be explained? One of the SEALs, alone, under attack and
outgunned, left his machinegun to lase a target under an empty sky?

NO
ONE in the entire military would believe that.

If attack assets were not overhead, HOW can the sacking of two flag officers be explained?

I have NEVER been as embarrassed by our entire government as I am
today. They are spending ALL DAY on side issues that all can devolve -
and have devolved – into he-said-he-said. WHERE ARE ADMIRAL GAOUETTE
AND GENERAL HAM?

We WILL NOT KNOW what happened without their testimony.

Does ISSA not get this? How can he not? What is he hiding and why?

But – Ham and Gaouette are CITIZEN SOLDIERS. Their FIRST DUTY is as AMERICAN CITIZENS.

WHERE ARE THEY? WHY have they not spoken-up? WHY has Issa not put them on the stand?

ANYONE relying on a currently-serving general officer or SecDef –
BOTH of whom ARE POLITICAL APPOINTEES, or even a recently-retired C-JCS –
the MOST POLITICAL OFFICER IN THE ENTIRE COMMAND STRUCTURE – is either
abysmally ignorant of the military, does NOT want to know the truth, or
is hiding something.

I understand that these two retired officers speaking up could cost
them all retirement benefits (though Congress can override that) and
that their peer-group as retirees is fellow flag officers, from whom
they may ostracize themselves. BUT THEY HAVE A DUTY TO AMERICA that
OVERRIDES THEIR PERSONAL COMFORT.

Hell – they USED to be fighting men.

Not to put too fine a point on it: Congress is failing in their
oversight role. General Ham and Admiral Gaouette have epically failed in
their responsibility to Americans as CITIZEN soldiers.

And of course the Obama administration has been lying about Benghazi
since it occurred. But, frankly, most Americans already understand that
Obama lies whenever and about whatever he wants, even when it’s not
necessary. And Hillary has been called a liar for years – even by
Barbara Walters in her 1996 interview, and by CBS News over the
‘we-landed-under-sniper-fire’ fiasco. So no one really expected honesty
from the Administration.

The U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has just announced that
there will be a hearing on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities on June 4! The Senate needs to hear from you
immediately that this already defeated UN treaty must not be ratified by
the U.S. Senate.

The United States Senate must protect our domestic sovereignty and
the care of children with disabilities from unelected, unaccountable UN
bureaucrats. Parents know best how to care for their children with
disabilities. U.S. law is currently the gold standard for ensuring that
people with disabilities are protected and able to participate in all
areas of U.S. society.

What You Can Do

The U.S. Senate is in session this week, which means that your
senators are on the Hill till Friday. We need your help to do three
things:

1. Call and email your two U.S. senators and urge them to oppose the UN CRPD. The Capitol Hill Switchboard is 202-224-3121, and you can use this link to email your senators. Use our advocacy website if you do not know who are your two U.S. senators.

2. Please share this article with your friends and family,
and educate them about the dangers that this UN treaty poses to
parental rights, homeschool freedom, and our nation’s sovereignty.

3. Next week, the Senate will be in recess for the Memorial Day weekend. We encourage you to visit your senators’ district offices in your state
and urge them to reject UN control over our loved ones with
disabilities. You can find the locations of your senators’ district
offices by calling their D.C. offices or visiting their webpages.

Speak Out

Your message to your senators can be as simple as the following:

“I urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to
unelected UN bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children
with disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect Americans with
disabilities. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families by
giving bureaucrats the power to decide what is in the best interests of a
child with disabilities, not the child’s parents.”

To find out more about the CRPD please click here. To read the text of the CRPD please click here.
Thank you for joining us in this battle to protect our children and
our children’s future. You defeated this treaty last year. Standing
together, we can defeat this treaty once again.

The IRS official over the division that reviews tax-exempt applications
will invoke her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before Congress,
her lawyer says.

Lois Lerner was scheduled to appear Wednesday before the House Oversight
Committee. But in a letter to committee Chairman Darrell Issa,
R-Calif., her lawyer says she will not offer testimony under her
constitutional rights against self-incrimination, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under
the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course," said the
letter from Lerner's defense attorney William W. Taylor III.

Taylor says in the letter that the Department of Justice has launched a
criminal investigation into why conservative groups were targeted for
extra scrutiny and that Issa's committee has asked Lerner for an
explanation why she gave "false or misleading information" four times in
2012.

Taylor asked that Lerner be excused from appearing since she will not be
answering questions. Since she will not testify, Taylor argued that
making Lerner appear would "have no purpose other than to embarrass or
burden her."

More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi
scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media
Monday afternoon.

These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are
currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully
protected by the Whistleblower law.

According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will
be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the
scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that
are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in
two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi
and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S.
Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act
to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel.

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger
missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department,
not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the
intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk
involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger
civilian aircraft.

Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of
the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”

We CAN NOT do this by ourselves! If you want NC to become the nation's
leader in illegal immigration, with the murder and mayhem that
accompanies them, then sit back and let the Republicans in the NC House
vote to approve HB786 - Reclaim NC Act (Licenses for illegals Act).

The bill passed this morning in the House Finance Committee with
little opposition and now goes to the House Floor for a full vote. IF it
passes the floor vote, it will then be transferred to the Senate for
consideration. This is our LAST chance to fix or kill this bill, before
it leaves the House of Representatives. Otherwise, NC will become THE
place in the country, for an illegal alien to get a drivers license or a
state issued ID card. Upon receiving one of these documents. they will
immediately be conferred a quasi legal status, beyond the reach of State
law enforcement.

We are being sold out for the almighty dollar. The House leadership
thinks the way to win re-elections is to have the NC Chamber of
Commerce, the NC Farm Bureau and the NC Travel and Tourism industry,
contribute tons of cash for their re-election campaigns and to outspend
the Democrats.

Let me just say one thing about that: The Republicans will LOSE future
elections if they continue with their current ideology of outspending
the opposition and catering to illegal aliens. They are loosing the
LEGAL immigrant votes because of the special treatment they are showing
to ILLEGAL immigrants and they are loosing the votes of their base
because they no longer stand for their stated conservative values.

The way to win re-elections is to stand on principle and enforce the laws equally.

Please take a few minutes of your time to contact your local representative in the NC House. Tell them
"you support the enforcement measures in HB786 BUT, you CAN NOT support
Section 9 (licenses for illegals section) of HB786. Eliminate Section 9
or Kill the Bill!"

Do Not assume someone else will do it! It is your responsibility to save your state and your wallet from this insane proposal.

Earlier today the Washington Post
reported that Fox News' James Rosen had been secretly monitored by the
Department of Justice. DOJ monitored his work and personal emails, read
his work and personal emails, monitored his phones, monitored his
movements and even named him as a criminal conspirator. Now, we know
Rosen wasn't the only Fox News reporter targeted. Reporter William
LaJeunesse, who extensively covered Operation Fast and Furious and
national-security senior producer Mike Levine.

Fox News executive Michael Clemente is vowing to stand by reporters and
slammed the administration for their intimidation tactics and assault
on the First Amendment.

“We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal
co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is
downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as
a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive
damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail
against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of
anthropogenic global warming.

Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his
remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake
of natural disasters.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you
care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if
we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial
lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this
together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma
and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us,
the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the
damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit
Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and
storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying
forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”

The Parental
Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution is back in the U.S.
Congress! Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) will be the lead sponsor this term,
with support from Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). The Amendment has not yet
been introduced, but has been through drafting and is now ready for
circulation. This means it can be shared with your congressman and Rep.
Meadows can begin to gather original cosponsors!

We are excited about our chances of moving the Amendment through
the House this session, since supporting cosponsor Franks is the
chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary
Committee. This is the subcommittee the PRA will need to go through to
reach the full Judiciary Committee, so his leadership there will help to
pave a smooth path for its progress.

We are also excited about our behind-the-scenes progress in the
Senate, and hope to confirm our lead sponsor there very soon.

In the newest iteration of the Amendment we have chosen to add a clarifying section to make sure the rights of every parent of a public school student will be protected as they were before the terrible Fields v. Palmdale ruling of the Ninth Circuit in 2005.

In that decision, the Court determined that parental rights “end at the school door.” (A later en banc decision of the Ninth Circuit softened the wording, but did not significantly change its meaning.) Such a termination of parental rights every time a child enters school is simply unacceptable.

This new section of the Parental Rights Amendment will ensure
that parents have “the right to make reasonable choices in public
schools for one’s child.” This will preserve the right, for instance, to
opt one’s child out of a session the parents might find objectionable.
It will not give parents any power over the school’s curriculum or what
is taught to anyone else’s child. (The same section also provides an
explicit protection of the right to choose public, private, religious,
or home schooling.)

Now it is time to contact your congressman and ask him or her to sign on as an original cosponsor of the Amendment. This should be a friendly call, especially if your congressman has sponsored the PRA in the past.

Your message can be as simple as the following: “Representative
Mark Meadows of North Carolina is gathering original cosponsors for the
Parental Rights Amendment, and I would like to encourage my congressman
to sign on. The language has been drafted but not introduced, so there
isn’t a bill number yet, but you can contact Patrick Fleming in Rep.
Meadows’ office for a copy of the resolution or to sign on as a
cosponsor. Thank you.”

In many cases, your congressman and his staff will appreciate the
call. In any event, please be courteous when you call; we are building
relationships that can help the Amendment pass in the long run.

To find your congressman’s phone number, click on your state at ParentalRights.org/States. Be sure to call their Washington, D.C., office.

Then, you can check our website
to see when your Congressman has signed on. We will keep the list as
current as possible so that you can know when calls are no longer
needed.

Why not also use this opportunity to encourage your friends and family to get involved with the Parental Rights Amendment by asking them to join you in calling Congress? Then, send them to our website to sign the petition so they can get these notices for themselves.

This would also be a good time, if you are able, to make a generous donationto ParentalRights.org to help us keep this exciting effort charging forward throughout the summer.

Thank you for taking action today as we prepare for the introduction of the PRA in Congress!

A California law that requires all
semi-automatic handguns to be equipped with technology that stamps its
identifying information on bullet casings is now in effect after years
of delays.

Though signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007,
the law couldn't take effect as it was supposed to in 2010 because of
patents on the technology, including at least one that had been bought
up by a gun rights group to delay the law's implementation.

On
Friday, Attorney General Kamala Harris officially certified and
announced that patents were no longer an issue. Former state Assemblyman
Mike Feuer, who authored the law, hailed it as a "monumental day for law enforcement" and said it was the first such law to go into effect in the nation. Other states, notably New York, have looked at such a law, but have had troubles getting it passed.

The “charity” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was
fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store,
according to its website.

The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is
actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever
to have been based.

The Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama.
As first reported by The Daily Caller,
the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner,
the IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative
organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt
status.

The charity was even given retroactive tax-exempt status despite
never having bothered to apply for it. And its history of soliciting
donations before receiving tax-exempt status was apparently overlooked.

The address listed on the site barackhobamafoundation.org is 107 S.
West St. #401, Alexandria, Va., which houses a UPS store on a street
that includes a tailor, a Catholic Charities thrift shop and a Gold
Works jewelry store.

Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details
what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the
Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party
targeting took place.

According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal
Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building.
ABC says if the intent wasn't to "scare off" employees who might talk,
"it was the effect."

ABC News is also hearing conflicting reports from Cincinnati IRS
employees and the IRS Headquarters in Washington. A Washington spokesman
told ABC that press queries are "referred to the press office," but
that "people have First Amendment rights, they are entitled to speak."

An employee in OH said that is not the case and that staffers have
been threatened with their jobs if they are caught talking to the media:

At the [Cincinnati] IRS office on the fourth floor, a woman who
answered the buzzer referred reporters to officials in Washington,
though they were not returning very many calls. That staffer also said
she was not allowed to speak to anyone – a line that was repeated by
agency personnel during the week.

A gunmen shot four people in
a bank, took a hostage, and then killed himself. Early reports said it
was a bank robbery, but Israeli police are not so sure.

A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the shootings happened inside
the bank, which was cordoned off with a large number of police. Israeli
TV footage showed several ambulances parked outside. Four other people
were wounded, one of them seriously.

Police said they were investigating the incident and backed off from initial claims that it had been a bungled bank robbery.

"We
are not convinced entirely at this point that we are talking about a
robbery or an attempted robbery but it could be we are talking about an
incident where from the start, the murderer came in with an intention to
shoot," national police chief Yohanan Danino told reporters.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the shootings happened inside
the bank, which was cordoned off with a large number of police. Israeli
TV footage showed several ambulances parked outside. Four other people
were wounded, one of them seriously.

Police said they were investigating the incident and backed off from initial claims that it had been a bungled bank robbery.

"We
are not convinced entirely at this point that we are talking about a
robbery or an attempted robbery but it could be we are talking about an
incident where from the start, the murderer came in with an intention to
shoot," national police chief Yohanan Danino told reporters.

For all who are following our work
with Irene, the 15 year-old runner who lives in a White squatter camp
near Pretoria, South Africa, here’s the news:

On my last trip I went to a school regional track meet where Irene
ran in both the 800m and the 1500m races. She won Gold in both. I also
discovered that she runs barefoot, as do most of the children, because
they can’t afford shoes. The shoes we made for Irene were customized
since she has no toes. They were stolen within days by a drug addict in
the camp. He sold them so we can’t get them back even though we know
who he is. So now she runs with no shoes.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.